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I’ve received many reports lately of users complaining of abnormal storage usage from one of my apps, Imageboard Browser.The application was in some cases storing hundreds of megabytes! I thought at first that it was just the "other storage” issue, but

There’s a memory leak that has been bothering me for a while in my Imageboard Browser app. The scenario is simple: a slideshow feature, where a new picture is loaded from an url every few seconds. After a while, the app crashes with an OutOfMemory exception.

A strange issue with the Panorama control, that has been brought to my attention by @lancewmccarthy , and which has also been encountered by some people on StackOverflow . The original scenario was a bit too complex for a blog post, but we can reproduce

Today we’ll dig a little into Windows Phone’s base class library, thanks to a question I found on stack overflow. The problem occurs with this simple code, used to load a music file from the isolated storage, and play it with a MediaElement: 1: using

Another issue I found on StackOverflow, which is way more tricky that it seems. Let’s say we have a Silverlight WP7 application, and we want to add a drag&drop scenario. The user first taps an element, drags his finger to another, and raises his finger

It’s an interesting issue I found on StackOverflow. Interesting because I often forget to test my applications using the Windows Phone’s white theme, so this kind of problem usually goes unnoticed until a user reports it. Create a simple WP7 application

This is one pretty sweet feature of Mango, yet it is still widely unknown. You can now display a settings page from an application. How? Simply by using the ConnectionSettingsTask class. It’s very easy to use: just set the ‘ConnectionSettingsType’ property,

No code in this blog post, I’d just like to give an advice to fellow Windows Phone 7 developers. Many applications use the isolated storage, be it to save data or to handle tombstoning scenarios. In either case, make sure that you surround your code with